Description
Mara Melandry’s Our Paradise: Berkeley’s Fabulous Family Camps is the only comprehensive history of the three family camps created and operated by the City of Berkeley. The camps were founded by Berkeley in the 1920s. The book is full of fun anecdotes and silly stories from the camps, and the research Melandry has done is meticulous and thorough, showing the evolution of the camps and the impact of larger societal trends on that evolution.
